Floydfest Saturday 2022: Let There Be Songs to Fill the Air
The Carolina Honeydrops’ version of The Grateful Dead’s Ripple (a song that always gives me goosebumps) was the masterpiece of my Floydfest Saturday.
It was New Orleans style
with dancers, horns, a sing-along and even a tuba!
Who Dat? Ready for a sweet Saturday.
But it’s bittersweet because it’s the last year the festival will be held on the current site along The Blue Ridge Parkway, a place we all have come to love.
Seeing as it’s the last festival on the site it was fitting to get a group shot of everyone who had 100% attendance in the 20 years that the festival has been going on.
The festival is moving next year to a 200+ acre site off 221 in the Check part of Floyd County.
Floydfest’s Builder Bob has every laminate staff tag from every year since the festival began in 2002.
Seeing Keller Williams and his daughter Ella on the Children’s Universe stage was a fun pit stop. She writes her own songs and is apparently headed for a career in the family business.
Ann Wilson of Heart was an evening headliner that cranked out the hits and the audience loved it. Watch HERE.
I didn’t stay for the nighttime headliners (it pays to live 5 miles up the road) but good ol’ boy rockers Will Easter and the Nomads, an On the Rise band, made for a nice send off.
